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ferentials in rates of pay for other workers shall be 
established according to skill, experience, hazards 
of employment and productive efficiency. 
The right of women to engage in industrial occupa- 
tions is recognized and affirmed ; their rates of pay 
shall be the same as those of male workers for the 
same or equivalent service performed; they shall 
be accorded all the rights and guaranties granted to 
male workers, and the conditions of their employ- 
ment shall surround them with every safeguard of 
their health and strength and guarantee them the 
full measure of protection which is the debt of 
society to mothers and to potential mothers. 
7. Children under the age of sixteen years shall not be 
employed. 
Six days shall be the standard work-week, with 
one day’s rest in seven. The standard work-day 
shall not exceed eight hours a day. 
Punitive overtime shall be paid for hours worked 
each day in excess of the standard work-day. 
Efficient production in conjunction with adequate 
wages is essential to successful industry. Arbitrary 
restriction on output below reasonable standards is 
harmful to the interests of wage-earners, employers, 
and the public, and should not be permitted. In- 
dustry, efficiency, and initiative, wherever found, 
should be encouraged and adequately rewarded, 
while indolence and indifference should be con- 
demned. 
Consideration of reduction in wages should not be 
reached until possibility of reduction of costs in all 
other directions has been exhausted. 
The foregoing code of principles for the guidance of 
industrial relations is comprehensive, and may. altho it 
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